From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 14 16:37:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC49414BC9 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 16:37:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA56727; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:03:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:03:20 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Rob Garrett Cc: Brett Glass , Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributors, or lack thereof Message-ID: <19990914200320.A56201@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <4.2.0.58.19990910084750.0479a540@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Rob Garrett on Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 05:29:30AM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 05:29:30AM -0400, Rob Garrett wrote: > So pr's now only contribute to source code, theres many areas that > freebsd is lacking in, and as a writer. In particular in those areas they > would greatly appreciate help, I assume this has always been the case. See > somebody needs to WTFM, so others can read it. An article here or there > doesn't cut it, while I'm not anywhere near as accomplished as you are, in > a journalstic sense. I've done quite a bit of what i percieve as real > advocacy. I have written an article for every issue of the FreeBSD zine to > date, helped with several of the articles on the diary. Installed freebsd > for many people, and walked lots of people through freebsd installation. > > No it's not a code thing.. its a mouth. verses work to accomplish thing. I don't quite follow that first paragraph, but just to be absolutely explicit -- use send-pr to submit new documentation! Either submit the doc and/or patches within the PR, or, if it's a large document, include a pointer to the documentation you want to submit as a URL. See for details. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message